Audible Releases Basket of Deplorables, an Original Audiobook Written by Tom Rachman
May 23 2017 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
The Bestselling Novelist Offers a Satirical
Look at America in the Age of Trump in This Original Work of
Fiction Created Exclusively for Audible
Audible Studios, a production arm of Audible.com, today
announced the release of Basket of Deplorables, a new work of
fiction written exclusively for Audible by acclaimed author Tom
Rachman (The Imperfectionists, The Rise and Fall of Great Powers).
Consisting of five stunning, intricately linked stories, Basket of
Deplorables addresses a seismic shift in American politics with an
incisive and satirical look at the United States in the era of
presidential data breaches, liberal self-righteousness, red-hat
rancor, and Internet sinkholes. Performed by Edoardo Ballerini,
Robin Miles, Jonathan Davis, Oliver Wyman and Allyson Johnson,
Basket of Deplorables is now available for download at
www.audible.com/Rachman.
“With Basket of Deplorables, Tom Rachman cements his status as
one of the great satirists and cultural observers today,” said
Audible Chief Content Officer Andy Gaies. “He’s created a deeply
relevant and satisfying work that truly resonates in audio with the
performances of this esteemed cast.”
“After the election, so many of us – whether horrified, or
jubilant, or in shock – felt impelled to talk about what had
occurred,” said Rachman. “Basket of Deplorables was my way of
expressing what I felt. Writing with audio in mind was a new
challenge and a pleasure too -- especially when I got to hear this
talented cast bring my tales to life.”
With a 30-day membership trial at Audible, new listeners can
enjoy any one audiobook, including this beautifully performed
production of Basket of Deplorables, free.
Among the acclaimed performers who have, narrated works of
literature for Audible are Sean Penn, Nick Offerman, Zachary
Quinto, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Lily Collins, Emma Thompson, James
Franco, and Jesse Eisenberg. In 2013, Audible Studios won its first
Grammy Award, for its production of Janis Ian’s memoir Society’s
Child, and also won the Audie Award for Audiobook of the Year, for
Colin Firth’s performance of Graham Greene’s The End of the
Affair.
Audible, the world’s largest seller and producer of downloadable
audiobooks and other spoken-word content, invented and
commercialized the first digital audio player in 1997, and has
since been at the forefront of the explosively growing audiobook
download segment. In 2016, Audible members downloaded an average of
more than 17 books over the course of the year. More than half of
new Audible members are first-time audiobook buyers.
ABOUT AUDIBLE, INC.
Audible, Inc., an Amazon.com, Inc. subsidiary
(NASDAQ:AMZN), is the leading provider of premium digital spoken
audio information and entertainment, offering customers a new way
to enhance and enrich their lives every day. Audible was created to
unleash the emotive music in language and the habituating power and
utility of verbal expression. Audible content includes more than
350,000 audio programs from leading audiobook publishers,
broadcasters, entertainers, magazine and newspaper publishers, and
business information providers. Audible is also the provider of
spoken-word audio products for Apple’s iTunes Store.
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